Ruination & Despair » New Archelaus cards http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog Archelaus takes a relentlessly upbeat look at operating a small greeting card business in Washington, DC. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:19:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 With apologies to Edgar Rice Burroughs http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2011/05/24/with-apologies-to-edgar-rice-burroughs/ http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2011/05/24/with-apologies-to-edgar-rice-burroughs/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 01:07:21 +0000 Alethea Oglethorpe http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/?p=1603 The card that time forgot. Journey to a savage world where stationery is extinct!

I’m not quite sure what to say about our latest card. I suppose it’s what we get for letting Cadwalader fool around with Photoshop.

If you expect cards to make a lick of sense, I don’t imagine this one will be for you, but Cadwalader assures me that making sense is overrated.

For those of you who don’t follow these things, The Land that Time Forgot (1918) was an adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs that was later made into a movie (1975) complete with unconvincing rubber dinosaur puppets.

]]> http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2011/05/24/with-apologies-to-edgar-rice-burroughs/feed/ 0 Archelaus dips into Nietzsche … http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2011/05/23/archelaus-dips-into-nietzsche/ http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2011/05/23/archelaus-dips-into-nietzsche/#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 21:40:21 +0000 Cadwalader Crabtree http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/?p=1592 Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche

This one has actually been out for awhile, but I’ve just been too neglectful to get it posted here for you. Bad Cadwalader!

So far this card has been very successful at Eastern Market, vying for the top spot among our blank notecards.

The illustration is by Gustave Doré (1832-83), whose oeuvre we have already happily pillaged for our successful Fatherhood and Happiness cards.

Needless to say, we hope you like it.

]]> http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2011/05/23/archelaus-dips-into-nietzsche/feed/ 0 Two new checkbox cards! http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2011/02/01/two-new-checkbox-cards/ http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2011/02/01/two-new-checkbox-cards/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:03:29 +0000 Cadwalader Crabtree http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/?p=1551 I see that Customer Service Minion #2 got the jump on me, announcing this month’s clearance sale before I could post our two new checkbox cards. No extra fish heads for him today!

Good luck with your heroic quest. Thank you for the tasty birdseed.
]]> http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2011/02/01/two-new-checkbox-cards/feed/ 0 Cadwalader’s Uncle Festus gets into the act http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2010/11/03/cadwaladers-uncle-festus-gets-into-the-act/ http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2010/11/03/cadwaladers-uncle-festus-gets-into-the-act/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:06:31 +0000 Alethea Oglethorpe http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/?p=1513 Festus's holiday letter

Cadwalader was having a little trouble coming up with a suitable holiday card this year, until I suggested that he simply reproduce his Uncle Festus’s always entertaining holiday letter.

The obvious advantage for our customers is that this fine card frees them from the odious responsibility of writing their own pedestrian holiday letters, which no one is going to read anyway.

In any event, chances are that Festus’s brood is more interesting than yours!

]]> http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2010/11/03/cadwaladers-uncle-festus-gets-into-the-act/feed/ 0 How about a checkbox anniversary card? http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2010/10/27/how-about-a-checkbox-anniversary-card/ http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2010/10/27/how-about-a-checkbox-anniversary-card/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:05:52 +0000 Cadwalader Crabtree http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/?p=1483 Happy anniversary to my adjacent gargoyle!

By popular demand, we are adding a new card to the ever important anniversary category! Did I mention that it’s a checkbox card? Admit it, some of you go in for that sort of thing.

As always with our renowned checkbox line, the new card gives you lots of exciting options.

But don’t take my word for it. After all, as the card’s designer, I have an obvious bias (not to mention a distinctly untrustworthy appearance). Instead, just click through to get the full force and meaning of the thing!

]]> http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2010/10/27/how-about-a-checkbox-anniversary-card/feed/ 2 And last but not least … http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2010/10/08/and-last-but-not-least/ http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2010/10/08/and-last-but-not-least/#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:11:35 +0000 Cadwalader Crabtree http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/?p=1460 Felicitations on your prize livestock!

It’s a new checkbox card, folks!

With dragons, no less!

Now you can felicitate someone you know on anything from their birthday to their illicit triumph! Not to mention their recent hatchling(s) or hallucinatory adventure!

It’s just so exciting you may need to lie down in a darkened room afterwards to recover your emotional equilibrium!

(Or, then, again, you may not.)

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